The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.
The Official Report search offers lots of different ways to find the information you’re looking for. The search is used as a professional tool by researchers and third-party organisations. It is also used by members of the public who may have less parliamentary awareness. This means it needs to provide the ability to run complex searches, and the ability to browse reports or perform a simple keyword search.
The web version of the Official Report has three different views:
Depending on the kind of search you want to do, one of these views will be the best option. The default view is to show the report for each meeting of Parliament or a committee. For a simple keyword search, the results will be shown by item of business.
When you choose to search by a particular MSP, the results returned will show each spoken contribution in Parliament or a committee, ordered by date with the most recent contributions first. This will usually return a lot of results, but you can refine your search by keyword, date and/or by meeting (committee or Chamber business).
We’ve chosen to display the entirety of each MSP’s contribution in the search results. This is intended to reduce the number of times that users need to click into an actual report to get the information that they’re looking for, but in some cases it can lead to very short contributions (“Yes.”) or very long ones (Ministerial statements, for example.) We’ll keep this under review and get feedback from users on whether this approach best meets their needs.
There are two types of keyword search:
If you select an MSP’s name from the dropdown menu, and add a phrase in quotation marks to the keyword field, then the search will return only examples of when the MSP said those exact words. You can further refine this search by adding a date range or selecting a particular committee or Meeting of the Parliament.
It’s also possible to run basic Boolean searches. For example:
There are two ways of searching by date.
You can either use the Start date and End date options to run a search across a particular date range. For example, you may know that a particular subject was discussed at some point in the last few weeks and choose a date range to reflect that.
Alternatively, you can use one of the pre-defined date ranges under “Select a time period”. These are:
If you search by an individual session, the list of MSPs and committees will automatically update to show only the MSPs and committees which were current during that session. For example, if you select Session 1 you will be show a list of MSPs and committees from Session 1.
If you add a custom date range which crosses more than one session of Parliament, the lists of MSPs and committees will update to show the information that was current at that time.
All Official Reports of meetings in the Debating Chamber of the Scottish Parliament.
All Official Reports of public meetings of committees.
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Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 5 June 2024
Edward Mountain
I am absolutely not deep diving, convener, and I will stick to the points, but if evidence is given to the committee that I think is fundamentally flawed, I must challenge it, otherwise it will not be on the official record.
Annette, I hope you are in Inverness in that wonderful centre that I visited the other day. I want to probe on antibiotic resistance and chemical resistance. Antibiotic use leads to antibiotic resistance. Are we seeing that in salmon farming, and is that a factor of increased use of chemicals or is it something that we should not worry about?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 5 June 2024
Edward Mountain
Are you saying they cannot?
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 5 June 2024
Edward Mountain
Yes.
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee
Meeting date: 5 June 2024
Edward Mountain
I will have to wait to read your report.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 4 June 2024
Edward Mountain
It would be interesting if you could get some advice on whether the A96 review can be published, because the work is already in progress and is part of a plan and, as the permanent secretary has said, the business of government must continue. I will not press that point now; I just ask whether you could consider it and come back to the committee.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 4 June 2024
Edward Mountain
Yes—we can hear you loud and clear.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 4 June 2024
Edward Mountain
Cabinet secretary, before you get tempted to set off on an electioneering route, I am sure that you will answer that question in line with the fact that the scheme is set to end by 29 September. You will have to do some work, but I caution you slightly on that.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 4 June 2024
Edward Mountain
So you have to sign it off.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 4 June 2024
Edward Mountain
I am sorry, Graham.
Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee
Meeting date: 4 June 2024
Edward Mountain
Ah.